488/1992 (Nicholas Toonen v. Australia), the Committee was called upon to determine whether the author, a gay activist in Tasmania who challenged two provisions of the Tasmanian criminal code that prohibited private homosexual behaviour, had been a victim of unlawful or arbitrary interference with his privacy, and whether he had been discriminated against in his right to equal protection of the law.
488/1992 (Nicholas Toonen contra Australia), se pidió al Comité que determinase si el autor, un activista homosexual de Tasmania que impugnó dos disposiciones del Código Penal de Tasmania que prohibían la conducta homosexual privada, había sido víctima de una injerencia ilícita o arbitraria en su vida privada y si se había discriminado contra su derecho a la igualdad de protección ante la ley.